Los Angeles Police Academy Memorial Signs

The memorial sign in front of the Los Angeles Police Academy, on Academy Road in Elysian Park, directly north of Dodger Stadium, includes individual memorial signs for 20 LAPD officers who died in the line of duty outside of the Los Angeles city limits.

Each memorial sign points toward the location where the officer died, including two officers who were killed in action during military deployment in Afghanistan in 2010.

The Police Academy sign includes:

Officer Ralph Miover
(July 7, 1891 -- April 11, 1925)

Officer Andrew J. Davilla
(Nov. 23, 1892 -- Sept. 10, 1926)

Officer Lee Newton Bunch
(Jan. 23, 1897 -- March 8, 1942)

Officer Michael Joseph McAndrews
(Dec. 18, 1918 -- Jan. 13, 1957)

Officer Jose Luis Castellanos
(Jan. 22, 1923 -- March 5, 1959)

Sgt. Norman Dean Piepenbrink
(Dec. 8, 1925 -- Nov. 30, 1964)

Officer John Thomas Lawler
(May 2, 1933 -- July 9, 1973)

Investigator Gerald Wayne "Blackie" Sawyer
(Oct. 19, 1941 -- Nov. 6, 1973)

Officer Raymond Earl Hicks, Sr.
(July 15, 1941 -- Aug. 17, 1976)

Officer David Earle Bailey
(March 19, 1956 -- Oct. 21, 1977)

Det. Curtis Clive Hagele
(May 13, 1940 -- March 10, 1980)

Officer Jack Dean Hayden
(Nov. 14, 1941 -- Oct. 10, 1982)

Officer Bobby Ray Leach
(Sept. 6, 1940 -- Aug. 5, 1983)

Officer David Charles Schmid
(Nov. 19, 1958 -- Dec. 16, 1992)

Officer Brian Ernest Fenimore Brown
(Sept. 3, 1971 -- Nov. 29, 1998)

SWAT Officer Louis Villalobos Jr.
(May 22, 1947 -- March 17, 2000)

Det. Abiel "Abe" Barron
(Nov. 27, 1953 -- June 25, 2003)

Officer Robert James "R.J." Cottle
(Feb. 18, 1965 -- March 24, 2010)

Officer Joshua James Cullins
(March 25, 1982 -- Oct. 19, 2010)

Officer Nicholas Choung Lee
(May 8, 1973 -- March 7, 2014)

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